Children’s Laureate Cowell calls for £100m investment in school libraries

Cressida Cowell, the Waterstones Children’s Laureate, is calling on Boris Johnson to commit to a yearly investment of £100m in primary school libraries.

Booksellers ‘delighted’ with busy first day’s trading

Bookshops across the UK have said they experienced a successful first day back after lockdown. Read more

New Jamie Oliver book 'to bring people together after challenging year'

Jamie Oliver has unveiled his latest book with Penguin Michael Joseph, “inspired by a desire to bring people together to enjoy great food, after a challenging year apart”. Read more

The Sentinel strides back to the top spot

Lee and Andrew Child's The Sentinel (Corgi) has boomeranged back into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, displacing Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder).... Read more
Rowling to bring out new children's novel The Christmas Pig

J K Rowling has written a "sparkling" new book for children, The Christmas Pig, to be released by Hachette Children's Group imprint Little, Brown Books for... Read more
Faber unveils Rooney cover designs

Faber has unveiled two cover designs for Sally Rooney's forthcoming novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, especially for indie bookshops, Waterstones and Easons.... Read more
NLT and PRH team up to review school library provision

The National Literacy Trust and Penguin Random House UK have launched a review into national primary school library provision. Read more
Fourth Estate and William Collins launch classics list

Fourth Estate and William Collins have introduced a modern classics list featuring titles from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Naomi Klein, Joan Didion and more.... Read more
Booker-winning Shuggie Bain shifts 500k copies globally

Douglas Stuart's Booker-winning novel Shuggie Bain (Picador) has now sold 500,000 copies in all formats globally, Pan Macmillan has said. Read more

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Our Covid year

Niall Mansfield Managing director at UIT Cambridge/Green Books

We started as a computer company – our biggest project was getting The Financial Times onto the internet in 1997 – but we wrote and... Read more
Ready, steady...

Emma Corfield-Walters Owner of Book-ish
The rise of Black speculative fiction

Kadija Sesay
Book fair season - but not as we know it

Michele Young Rights director at Pan Macmillan
Dearth of a Black salesman

Rochelle Dowden-Lord